UN Holidays - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Every year on March 21, the world celebrates the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Racial discrimination or racism is an international violation of human rights and infringement of one’s personality on the basis of belonging to a different race or nationality In 1966, the UN General Assembly proclaimed this date as a day against racism The date was not chosen by chance; it was on this day in the Republic of South Africa that 69 people were killed by police during a peaceful demonstration against apartheid legislation People were just peacefully protesting against the mandatory passporting of African Americans, but it all ended in terrible bloodshed This is why South Africa celebrates Human Rights Day on this day, while other countries celebrate it on December 10th This tragedy literally blew up the public and the UN decided to fight racial discrimination, emphasizing that to a large extent everything depends on ordinary citizens The problem of racism has its roots from ancient times; just remember the notorious acts of the Ku Klux Klan They swore an oath that they would never allow equality between whites and blacks Activists of the movement first sent a warning to the victim and if he did not leave the country, he would face inevitable reprisals The victims were predominantly black, but sometimes white Republicans also suffered The UN believes that racial discrimination is one of the main problems of the modern world It hinders economic development and socialization and is a major obstacle to international cooperation and peaceful life The General Assembly calls on all countries to participate in the elimination of all forms of racism and pledges to redouble efforts to defeat this problem together Indeed, activists of nationalist movements commit terrible acts and their beliefs are a direct humiliation of human dignity A person at birth does not choose his appearance and skin color, why is one person better than another, if only he has a European type of race? The ideas of Nazism never ended well, you just have to cite the Great Patriotic War as an example, because its initiator Adolf Hitler believed that only one Aryan race should dominate the world, and everyone else should either serve the Aryans or lose their lives There is already so much evil in the world; we need to fight it, and not create new crimes The UN is careful to ensure that all people have the same rights, regardless of race In addition to March 21, the entire week following this date is called the week of solidarity with peoples who are fighting racial discrimination